Infobox Person
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name = Stacy Madeleine Schiff
birth_date = Birth date and age|1961|10|26|mf=y
birth_place = Adams, Massachusetts
occupation = Author
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961 [cite web | url = http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writer.asp?z=y&cid=1422790 | title = Barnes&Noble Meet the Writers: Stacy Schiff] ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American nonfiction author and guest columnist for "The New York Times".
Biography
Schiff is a graduate of Phillips Academy preparatory school, and earned her B.A. degree from Williams College in 1982. She was a Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster until 1990. Her essays and articles have been published in "The New Yorker", "The New York Times Book Review" and "The Times Literary Supplement".
Schiff has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. [cite web | url = http://www.lapl.org/events/aloud/mar-apr_05/s-schiff.html | title = ALOUD: Lectures, Readings, Performances, & Discussions (Los Angeles Central Library)]
Schiff won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for her biography of Vera Nabokov, wife and muse of "Lolita" and "Pale Fire" author Vladimir Nabokov. She was also a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for "Saint-Exupéry: A Biography" about Antoine de Saint Exupéry.
Currently a guest columnist at "The New York Times", Schiff resides in New York City and Edmonton, Alberta.
Notable articles
Schiff wrote a "New Yorker" profile of Wikipedia ("Know It All" column, July 31, 2006)[cite web]
url = http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact
title = Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?
accessdate = 2007-03-06
last = Schiff
first = Stacy
authorlink =
date = July 24 2006
work = Know It All
publisher = The New Yorker
archiveurl =
archivedate =
quote =] , the correction of which in February, 2007 sparked the Essjay controversy. [cite news
url=http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/NEWS01/703060446/1008
title=Wikipedia editor who posed as professor is Ky. dropout: Man resigns post after controversy
author=Andrew Wolfson
publisher=Louisville Courier-Journal
date=March 6 2007
accessdate=2007-03-07] Bibliography
Books
*:"(Nominated for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize)"
*:"(Winner of 2000 Pulitzer Prize)"
*:"(Winner of the George Washington Book Prize in 2006)":"(Published in the UK as" cite book | author = Schiff, Stacy | title = Dr Franklin Goes to France | publisher = Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | location = | year = | pages = | isbn = 0-7475-6923-1")"
* "(In preparation)"
elected essays and articles
*" [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/opinion/13schiff.html Desperately Seeking Susan] ." "New York Times", October 13, 2006.
*cite news | author=Schiff, Stacy |title=Founding Chauvinist Pig? | work=New York Times|date=2007-10-14|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F01E3D9163CF937A25753C1A9619C8B63 | accessdate = 2007-10-24:"(Review of" cite book | author = Jon Kukla | title = Mr. Jefferson's Women | publisher = Knopf | date = 2007-10-09 | isbn = 1400043247")"
References
External links
* [http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/sschiff1.htm "An Interview with Stacy Schiff"] by Suellen Stringer-Hye, published in April 1999 by Random House.
Persondata
NAME= Schiff, Stacy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Schiff, Stacy Madeleine
SHORT DESCRIPTION= American Female Author, Pulitzer Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH= October 26, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH= Adams, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=
